I have read or listened many times to Adam Dickey’s article, ‘Gods Law Of Adjustment’. Each time, the truths in it are fresh and helpful.
Several years ago my husband and I went on an activity holiday, on a Greek Island, where we were going to be taught how to sail, water ski and windsurf. We flew to the island of Skiathos, which is North of Athens in the Aegean Sea. We were told when we arrived that it was just the end of their rainy season.
It was actually raining quite heavily then. We were driven up to a beach in the North of the island to get settled in to one of their cabins. The next morning was wonderfully clear and sunny, but quite cold. The cabins were on a little hill so we walked down to the beach below to see what was going on.
Because it was chilly we had long trousers and jackets on. The beach was deserted except for a young man who was getting a sail boat ready to sail. My husband went back up to the cabin to get his camera and I asked the sailing instructor, which the young man turned out to be, if we could go out for a sail. He said, “Yes of course, just hop in”.
So I did and went back to the stern of the boat and sat, not on the actual seat, but on the edge with my feet still in the boat. Off we went. We sailed out into the small bay which led to the Aegean. About half way out the instructor called out that he was going to turn around and sail back in and that I was to duck down so the boom , which the sail is attached to wouldn’t hit me when it changed direction. I ducked, the sail came around and something broke on the boom. The jolt of that something caused me to fall in to the water.
The instructor had to keep sailing straight on because now he couldn’t turn at all, although he called out that he’d come back for me.
I did have on a life jacket but I’d only tied it loosely and because I was wearing long trousers and a jacket they quickly filled up with water; I was being dragged under. Looking over at the land I could see that I was also slowly drifting out into the Aegean.
In Gods Law of Adjustment it says you can’t be anywhere where God isn’t taking care of you , even if drowning at sea! The only words that came to me were ‘even if drowning at sea’, which brought the essence of that part of the article to me. I looked back to where we’d come from and at the very far end of that beach, over on the right, was another sail boat just coming out. By now I was down to my neck in the water because of my heavy clothes. I raised my arm as high as I could just as the man on this sail boat looked in my direction; he spotted it, immediately sailed over and dragged me on to his boat. He turned out to be one of the guests and the best sailor staying at the holiday cabins!!!!
My continual gratitude knows no bounds. Thank you Father for this reassurance of your total loving care.
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